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Cover: Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen
Two Wheels Good

Released in 1985
Epic EK 40100
Review from Leonard's Lair site
(rating 5 out of 5)
 
(03:44)   Faron Young
(03:43)   Bonny
(03:53)   Appetite
(03:44)   When Love Breaks Down
(04:28)   Goodbye Lucille # 1
(04:18)   Hallelujah
(03:55)   Moving The River
(04:36)   HorsinŽ Around
(05:19)   Desire As
(02:25)   Blueberry Pies
(04:29)   When The Angels
(03:38)   The Yearning Loins
(03:06)   HeŽll have to go
(04:45)   Faron (TruckinŽ Mix)

I count the hours 
since you slipped away

I count the minutes 
and the seconds too

 
All songs composed by Paddy McAloon, except 13, by A. Allison and J. Allison
Cover by East Orange. Produced by Thomas Dolby and Phil Thornally


Faron Young

Antiques !
Every other sentiment's an antique
As obsolete as warships in the baltic
I'm driving on a straight road it never alters
And the radio serenades but doesn't falter

You offer infrared instead of sun
You offer paper spoons and bubble gum

Late sky
Like an all night radio station
Without morning
Like stumbling on pearl harbour
Without warning

You offer infrared instead of sun
You offer bubble gum

You give me faron young four in the morning
You give me faron young four in the morning
Every mother's son's romantic
Every mother's son's frantic !

The sunset makes a fence out of the forest
But here I am with head inside the bonnet
I've lost just what it takes to be honest

You offer infrared instead of sun
You offer bubble gum

You give me faron young four in the morning
You give me faron young four in the morning
Forgive me faron young four in the morning
Forgive me faron young four in the morning


Bonny

I spend the days with my vanity

I'm lost in heaven and I'm lost to earth
Didn't give you minutes not even moments
All my life in a tower of foil
Shaded feelings, don't believe you

When you were there before my eyes
No one planned it took it for granted

I count the hours since you slipped away
I count the hours that I lie awake
I count the minutes and the seconds too
All I stole and I took from you
But Bonny don't live at home, he don't live at home
Words don't hold you, broken soldiers

I count the hours since you slipped away
I count the hours that I lie awake
I count the minutes and the seconds too
All I stole and I took from you
But Bonny don't live at home, he don't live at home
Words don't hold you, broken soldiers

All my silence and my strained respect
Missed chances and the same regrets
Kiss the thief and you save the rest
All my insights from retrospect
But Bonny's not coming home, he don't live at home
Save your speeches, flowers are for funerals


Appetite

Please be careful is never careful
Till it hears the gun
She will always pay the bills
For the having big fun
He talks so well, what can you do,
It's pretty plain he means it too
I don't want to sell you lines,
I only mean to do you right
But I'm a simple slave of appetite,
I'm a poor slave of appetite

Hunger howls, hungers red,
Hungers stays till it's fed
Then it some how fades,
Then it somehow leaves your sight
Depending on it's appetite,
Depending on your appetite

So if you take - Then put back good
If you steal - be Robin Hood
If your eyes are wanting all you see
Then I think I'll name you after me
I think I'll call you appetite

Here she is with two small problems
And the best part of the blame
Wishes she could call him heartache
But it's not a boy's name

If you grow up to be, just like him, just like me
You're fighting for exclusive rights,
For honeymoons each sleepless night
In which case I'll call you appetite
Yes I think I'll call you appetite

So if you take - Then put back good
If you steal - be Robin Hood
If your eyes are wanting all you see
Then I think I'll name you after me
I think I'll call you appetite

So if you take - Then put back good
If you steal - be Robin Hood
If your eyes are wanting all you see
Then I think I'll name you after me
I think I'll call you appetite

Then I think I'll name you after me
I think I'll call you appetite


When Love Breaks Down

My love and I, we work well together
But often we're apart
Absence makes the heart lose weight, yeah,
Till love breaks down, love breaks down

Oh my, oh my, have you seen the weather
The sweet september rain
Rain on me like no other
Until I drown, until I drown

When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you

When love breaks down
The lies we tell,
They only serve to fool ourselves,
When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you

When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you
When love breaks down,
Love breaks down

My love and I, we are boxing clever
She'll never crowd me out
Fall be free as old confetti
And paint the town, paint the town

When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you
When love breaks down

The lies we tell,
They only serve to fool ourselves,
When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you
When love breaks down
You join the wrecks
Who leave their hearts for easy sex

When love breaks down
When love breaks down


Goodbye Lucille # 1

Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny there is time for tears
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny you won't make it any better
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny you might well make it worse
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny I advise you to forget her

Ooh Johnny Johnny Ooh
You're not the first though it hurts, Johnny Johnny Ooh...

Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny what are you twenty-one ?
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny why don't you give it a rest
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny the world is a million
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny there can be no contest

Ooh Johnny Johnny Ooh
Life's not complete till your heart's missed a beat
And you'll never make it up, or turn back the clock
No you won't, no you won't
No you won't, no you won't
Johnny Johnny Ooh

Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny she is a person too
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny she has her own will
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny why don't you join the foreign legion
Ooh Johnny Johnny Johnny you're still in love with Hayley Mills

Ooh Johnny Johnny Ooh
Life's not complete till your heart's missed a beat
And you'll never make it up, or turn back the clock
No you won't, no you won't
No you won't, no you won't
Johnny Johnny Ooh
Johnny Johnny Ooh


Hallelujah

There are all kinds of things I could ask you if I choose
But I don't do I dear good intentions don't survive here
No instead my requests tend to be dumb as hell
Move in close, closer still, I hear the songs of Georgie Gershwin
I swear at you 'cos I believe that sweet talk like candy rots teeth

No Hallelujahs, or gifted voices
To sing your praises I'd be walking on wheels
No whoops or war crys or caramias
All translations will read Marry me now

Well I sing to express my belief that
sweet talk like candy rots teeth
With his hand on his heart, it's a posing place
While draining the mystery from your face
He admits all he's chasing is the chase
But you won't let him run

You make him suffer for all he's gone done
He'll still be hurting when the kingdom comes

Move in close till you see, he only wants what he can't have
So when he gets it he's good as bad
Move in close, closer still, I hear the songs of Georgie Gershwin
Oh Hallelujah, how I'm walking on wheels


Moving The River

You surely are a truly gifted kid
But you're only good as
The last great thing you did
And where've you been since then
Did the schedule get you down
I hear you've got a new girlfriend
How's the wife taking it ?

If it's uphill all the way you should be used to it by now

You must know me, Father it's your son
And I know that you are proud of everything I've done
But it's the wonders I perform,
Pulling rabbits out of hats
When sometimes I'd prefer
Simply to wear them

If it's uphill all the way you should be used to it and say
My back is broad enough sir to take the strain and it's

Hello mother, it's your son and aren't you proud, of all I've done
But I'm turkey hungry, I'm chicken free,
and I can't breakdance on your knee
But it's stay right there son, baby do,
while I is itchin' for something new
So watch me hawkeye and understand the force of will,
the sleight of hand
Movin' the river, I'm turkey hungry,
I'm chicken free and I can't breakdance on your knee
Movin' the river, bucket by spoon, and do you think that they'll
like me when they learn what I o

Movin' the river, money for jam,
and it takes such an effort to stay where I am . . .


HorsinŽ Around

It's me again your worthless friend or foe
I somehow let that lovely creature down
Horsin' around, horsin' around
Some things we check and double check and lose
I guess I let that little vow get lost
Forgettin' the cost, forgettin' the cost

Quick to forgive and so slow to blame,
the very thought fills me with shame
But that didn't stop it happening

The thrill of it - can I call it that ? - was cheap
And feeling cheap's the only thing you keep
It's so unsightly to walk from her arms so lightly
Selling it all up the swanee

Horsin' around's a serious business,
last thing you'd want somebody to witness
I was the fool who always presumed that
I'd wear the shoes and you'd be the doormat
You wonder why my hands are still shaking :
In need of a cry the shoulders are taken...

I deserve to be kicked so badly
You deserve more than I sold you for
Horsin' around, horsin' around

The moral is whatever else you learn
You shouldn't let that lovely creature down
Lord just blind me, don't let her innocent eyes remind me
Selling it all up the swanee
Horsin' around, horsin' around.


Desire As

I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?

They were the best times,
the harvest years with jam to lace the bread
So goodness, goodness knows why I'd throw it
to the birds But there it is, and there we are
And all I ever want to be is far from the eyes that ask me

In whose bed you gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
It's perfect as it stands so why then crush it in your perfect hands ?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them

So tell me you must have thought it all out in advance
Or goodness, goodness knows why you'd throw it to the birds
You mock the good things, you play the heart strings,
play them one by one

But there it is, and there we are
And all I ever want to be is far from the eyes that ask me

In whose bed you gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
It's perfect as it stands so why then crush it in your perfect hands ?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
In whose bed you gonna be and is it true you only see
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?

I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them
It's perfect as it stands so why then crush it in your perfect hands ?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
Desire as a sylph figured creature who changes her mind ?
I've got six things on my mind you're no longer one of them


Blueberry Pies

Lying is killing the good things in me
Ask me what the time is baby, ask me honey
My eyes shift and slide
Sure there are reasons for acting like this
But reasons are kill kill killing the everything we do
Who said we'd be happy the more that we knew ?
Oh don't come a calling with answer me eyes
All you'll get my baby are blueberry pies

But your being lovely,
And your being good
Only depresses me, knowing how oddly I'm behaving
Hello stranger - (The) stranger I've become - I'm an air raid
Leaving both us orphans and four fifths afraid

So if I come begging with take me back eyes
All you have to tell me
All you have to tell me are blueberry, blueberry pies.


When The Angels

When the angels take the angel voive away
ome lower their eyes, some of us shout cheats
or cheating on the deal, pulling off the sting,
uning up the harps, dishing out the wings

If they can dance on, on the head of a pin
Don't that tell you something about their skin
Hard faced little bastards

When the angels take the angel voice away
Jealously they see the sometimes man you'd be
Must get so blase, knowing you'll never die,
Lounging on a cloud; polishing the sky
The memories are blue, but borrowed for the day
They sit around ignored, till someone goes away

If they can dance on, on the head of a pin
Don't that tell you something about their skin
Hard faced little bastards

When the angels take the angel voice away
Jealously they see the sometimes man you'd be

The memories are blue, but borrowed for the day
They sit around ignored, till someone goes away
For cheating on the deal, pulling off the sting,
Tuning up the harps, dishing out the wings

If they can dance ... bastards
When the angels take the angel voice away
Jealously they see the sometimes man you'd be


The Yearning Loins



HeŽll Have To Go   

go go go !
GO GO GO !

Chorus:
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
LetŽs pretend that weŽre together all alone
IŽll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you
HeŽll have to go

Whisper to me, tell me do you love me true
Or is he holding you the way I do
Though love is blind, make up your mind, I've got to know
Should I hang or would you tell them,
HeŽll have to go

You can say the words I want to hear
While youŽre with another man
Do you want me answer, yes or no
Darling, I will understand

(Chorus)